Acquisition number: 1994.01
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Cypriot Hemispherical Bowl, reconstructed from four fragments.
Title: Cypriot Hemispherical Bowl - 1994.01
Acquisition number: 1994.01
Culture or period: Early Bronze Age.
Date: not after 1850 BC.
Material: Clay - Terracotta
Object type: Vessels - Bowl
Dimensions: 165mm (w) × 90mm (h)
Origin region or location: Cyprus
Display case or on loan: 1
Keywords: Early Bronze Age, Bronze Age, Cypriot
The Antiquities & Ethnographica Society, Adelaide, Catalogue 7, August 1974, item 37.
1994.01
Cypriot Hemispherical Bowl
Given by Mr Greg Murphy of Curtin ACT.
Ht ca 9cm; diam. ca 16.5cm.
Reconstructed from four fragments; some chips from the lip and some surface wear. Round-bottomed, hemispherical form, hand-made. There is a horizontally pierced lug on one side with a small knob above. Pale, slightly rough clay with some small dark inclusions. The vase has a very well-smoothed and highly polished surface; it is fired a pinkish red on the wall and base on the outside, black on the lip and the inside.
Early Bronze Age, not after 1850 bc. Not in J.M. Webb, Cypriote Antiquities in Australian Collections, i (Corpus of Cypriote Antiquities 18, SIMA XX:18, Jonsered 1997).
The Antiquities & Ethnographica Society, Adelaide, Catalogue 7, August 1974, item 37.